Director: Aisha Gazdar
Pakistan / 16min

This film was made to highlight the issue of women home-based workers in Pakistan. There are millions of women who get contract work at their homes. They are involved in making shoes, doing embroidery, making incense sticks; the list is endless. While they form an important part of the informal as well as the formal economy, their legal status remains unrecognized. They are yet to become a part of policymaking in the country and continue to labor at extremely low rates and in pitiable working conditions. This is a glimpse of their story.

About the Director: Aisha Gazdar started her career in documentaries as an assistant director before taking up journalism and women’s development issues. She has been involved full time in documentaries since 2001 and her previous work include the following:
The ‘Invisible’ Force:  Women workers in Pakistan.
Another World is Possible: CEDAW in South Asia- Filmed across South Asia, a look at women rights in the region through the prism of the UN Convention, CEDAW.
The Last Day: A True Story of a Hibakusha : A Docu-Drama depicting the  horrors of the Atom bomb  following the successful nuclear tests by India and Pakistan in 1998.